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success in rooting from cuttings, as some of the old country people 

 tell you they have. All our filbert trees are seedlings and we have 

 had good pollenation. 



As regards cropping, Japanese walnuts seem to vary somewhat 

 from year to year, but we have never had a failure either in filberts 

 or Japanese walnuts. 



Question: Have you grafted or budded Japanese walnuts? 



Mr. Gellatly: We have tried it but with very little success. 

 We have had some, but nothing that you could call commercial suc- 

 cess. I put five patch buds on one Japanese walnut and all took but 

 failed to grow. Ever since then the growth on the black walnut 

 stocks has been much faster and the result is the trees double around 

 the bud patches like your fist, which will make a pretty piece of 

 walnut burl. 



Mr. Greene: How deep would you cover your sjarouts when 

 you layer them? 



Mr. Gellatly: About six inches. I put in some well-decayed 

 barnyard manure. Sometimes soil alone hardens and you would have 

 difficulty with the sprouts coming through after the soil was hard. 



Question : You have had good success in layering and in the 

 division of the heart nut? 



Mr. Gellatly: Yes. 



Question: That seems to be the way to propagate the heart nut 

 then? 



Mr. Gellatly: This is my first experience but I am well satis- 

 fied with it. 



Question: That would only be desirable for trees of known 



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merit ? 



Mr. Gellatly: Yes. You could propagate any kind but there 

 would be no object in propagating anything that you did not know 

 to be of value. 



Mr. Spencer : Some years ago I bought a half dozen filberts in 

 Rochester, New York. The bushes now are about as high as this 

 ceiling and have never had a nut on them. Occasionally I have seen 

 catkins one-half and one and a half inches long. I should like to 

 know how to get nuts. 



Mr. Gellatly: We have had the same difficulty. I have no 

 theory to advance except that in the case of my neighbors, where also 



